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 wytherocks.jpg676 viewsThis is from a circa 1905 postcard.
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 pulaskifarm.jpg676 viewsThis 1930s postcard shows a "typical" farm.
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 Chilhowie - Lumber Wagons676 viewsThis circa 1910 photo shows horse-drawn wagons loaded with lumber approaching the Chilhowie Railroad Depot. Courtesy of Edna Bonham Love.
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 McCready - Sandstone Cliff676 viewsthis ca.1910 image from the U.S. Geological Survey shows a sandstone cliff near McCready, Smyth County, VA,
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 1908 Courthouse675 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, September 2005. You might be interested in the Minutes of the Grayson County, Virginia Confederate Pension Board
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 MadamRussellCabin001.jpg675 viewsPhoto by Janice Busic, January 2006. Madam Russell was the sister of Virginia's famous Patrick Henry. She married first General William Campbell, and second another Revolutionary War General William Russell. A reprint of some of the correspondence of Russell is found in this reprint of Anna Des Cognet's William Russell
Photo Courtesy of Janice Busic janice_b@verizon.net
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 groseclose1909.jpg675 viewsThis view of Groseclose was made circa 1909.
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 Cox Chapel Community Center674 viewsPhoto by Jeff Weaver, May 2005.
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 ShannonsRock.jpg674 viewsTHIS IS ANOTHER PICTURE (circa 1912) FROM THE BATCH GIVEN TO ME BY LULA SHANNON (on the right) IN THE LATE 60's. IT WAS IN WITH THE PICS OF THE HOUSE WHERE YOU ARE NOW LIVING. NO NAMES WERE WITH THE PICTURES. COULD EITHER OF THE MEN BE DR. EARLY? Courtesy of Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.net
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 bottlehouse.jpg673 viewsFrom a 1955 postcard.
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 Saltville - Preston House673 viewsThis photo was taken february 1976 by Don Smith dsmith1043@comcast.nett
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 923.jpg672 viewsThis is a photo of the Wolf Knob School taken in January 1913.
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Email: graysoncountyhistoricalsociety@gmail.com

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Independence, VA 24348

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107 East Main Street
Independence, VA 24348

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The Grayson County Virginia Heritage Foundation is established to promote, preserve, and educate the members and public about the cultural and family heritages of Grayson County, Virginia. We are a public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

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